Between The Order of Levi, Nimrod & Melchizedek

The Old & New Testament Concepts of Ministry

Every system of worship is mediated by a particular form of priesthood. Each priesthood order is the basis on which the way people worship the deity they are beholden to stands. Religions have structured priesthoods structured on rank and manifested by external symbols which adherents use to distinguish the 'greater' from the 'lesser'.

One of the critical problems confronting saints is that many were born into environments and  systems that are rooted in 'Christian religion'. These systems leaned heavily on either Judaism or the religion which sought to 'replace' it, Rome. Over the years, Rome had basically appropriated the priestly caste of Judaism, modified it and made it the basis of its world-view which divides adherents into two broad classes: Priests and Laity.  Most of the offshoots of Rome - including fruits of the Lutheran Reformation invariably found the allure of this dichotomy too great to ignore. The priestly caste has thus been sustained even in Pentecostal and Charismatic ministries which are modern offshoots of the Protestant movement.

Unfortunately, what many saints have been doing all these years is to basically try to store the new wine of the gospel of the Kingdom in the old wineskin of two cornerstones of Judaism:

• a professional priestly caste called 'the clergy' and
• massive investment in religiously designed building men described as 'Churches' to take the place of the Temple.

Here is how Jesus defined the impossibility of what many have tried to do with the Church and the Old Testament structures: